Volunteers help clean up Richland Creek

Group braves cold, yanks trash from beloved waterway

5:34 AM,
Mar. 3, 2013

Jeremy Childs was one of about 60 volunteers who braved the cold and damp conditions on Saturday morning to pick up trash during a Richland Creek cleanup effort organized by the Richland Creek Watershed Alliance.

Written by

Brian Haas
| The Tennessean

It didn't matter that it was only 30-some-odd degrees outside or that they were ankle-deep in freezing-cold water and mud.

This creek wasn't going to clean itself.

And so, dozens of volunteers on Saturday morning took to about a 1-mile stretch of Richland Creek along Charlotte Pike, putting on warm coats and brave faces as they slogged through several inches of mud to beautify the area. The cleanup effort is the 18th in the past six years, all organized by the Richland Creek Watershed Alliance. ...